I've finally decided on my list of favorite films from 2004. This isn't it. You see, I've decided it but I haven't written it. Writing is for tomorrow. Sleeping is for tonight.
In the meantime, here's a quick list of the movies I didn't get to see in 2004 but which I really wanted to see. I'm sure I'll get around to all of them eventually, but for now they're they Could've Beens.
Some didn't play here (for "here" please substitute accordingly: "in Toronto," "in North America," or "more than a single time and that was in some country where they speak without vowels"). Others only played in festivals at which I didn't get festly. Some slipped past in limited release without me hearing about them until all that was left was a faded corner of their poster peeking out from behind an ad for The Whole Ten Yards.
So without further ado, here are My Could've-Been Favorite Movies of 2004:
- High Tension (AKA Haute Tension, AKA Switchblade Romance) by Alexandre Aja
- The Big Empty by Steve Anderson
- Kontroll (AKA Control) by Nimrod Antal
- Old Boy (AKA Oldeuboi) by Park Chan-wook
- The Green Brothers by Anders Thomas Jensen
- One Missed Call (AKA Chakushin Ari) by Takashi Miike
- Madame Edward & Inspector Leon by Nadine Monfils
- The Last Horror Movie by Julian Richards
- Creep by Christopher Smith
- One Point O by Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson
- Seven Times Lucky by G. B. Yates
Any movies you didn't see but wish you did? I bet there were a lot more you did see but which you hadn't.
